The Vermont watchman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1883-1911, 1887-08-10
Weekly News summary.
Vermont.


PELToNs new directory of Rutland con-
tains the names of 5,400 people.
p. T. BARNUM will pay $4,000 for that
Champlain sea~serpent dead or alive.
THE Vermont Universalist grove meetings
at Queen City Park are largely attended
b. ID. BROWN, a millwrght died in Barry,
ILL.,, last Wednesday. He formerly lived in
Barre, VT.
REV. e. II. DELIvAN, Methodist, has re-
signed his pastorate at Mendon on account
of i'll health.
AN effort is being made to start news
paper at Lyndonville to be called the Lyn-
donville Mems.
Mrs. II. G. DUDLEY of Barton Landing
recently found a snake nicely coiled up in
bureau drawer.
THE wife of Roadmaster A. c. Bean of
the Central Vermont died at White River
Junction Sunday.
THE second annual reunion of the Third
Regiment will be held at st. Johnsbury
Wednesday, October II.
PRINCIPAL o. +. DAVIS of the Chester
high school has been elected principal of
the Bellows Falls high school.
JUDGE VEAzEY and his daughter Anna are
travelling in Switzerland. They will not
start for home before September.
THE barn of w. e. Center in Grand Isle
burned, with twenty tons of hay. Insured.
July 81 Rev John Morse received
twenty-six members in full connection to the
Methodist Episcopal church at West Burke.
THE Lyndonvlle Methodist camp-meeting,
which was to begin August TO- has been
postponed one week and will begin the ODD.
THE Vermont department Grand Army
of the Republic, has increased its member
ship two hundred seventy-two since Janu-
airy LIST.
THE report comes from Grand Isle that
Rev. o. w. Barrows, pastor of the Metho-
dist Episcopal church there, died last week
Tuesday.
Two boys-George Powers and Bert Pat
acknowledgements from their homes in
Rutland Saturday and at last accounts had
not been found.
WILLIAM HARPER, former engineer on
the Central Vermont road, who left st. AL
bans some six or eight years ago, died at
Florence, S. c., last week.
THE Vermont State Agricultural Society
has received the sum of 500, to be given to
the exhibitor of the best herd of registered
Jersey cattle owned in Vermont.
JOHN G.. FEssENDEN of Green River
while moving under an apple-tree July 49,
found apples that grew last season as fresh
and sound as they were last fall
THE Barlow Grays, St. Albans have
elected the following officers: Captain, E.
w. Bordo: first lieutenant, G. f. Roleau
second lieutenant, b. b. Perkins.
JAMES MORRILL,, son of Senator Morrill,,
is reported convalescent, but will be unable
TO bear removal from Washington to YER
mont before the middle of this month.
Two large barns owned by Isaac Jakeway
at West Haven were struck by lightning
and burned with some farming machinery
as well as large quantity of hay and grain
DIR. A. ID. SMITH of Manchester, n. H.,
died lately at the age of forty-six. He was
a native of Corinth, son of Rev. A. ID.
Smith and was graduated from New York
medical school in 1869.
CHARLES o. MEACHAM, a son of Ozro
Meacham of Brandon, has been appointed
one of the deputy collectors of customs,
with headquarters at the Canadian Pacific
railway station in Montreal.
JAMES CoRBINE, aged forty brakeman
on the Bennington & Rutland road, was
killed near Wallingford as it is supposed,
by falling from moving freight-train. He
leaves widow and three children.
o. d. BRIDGEMAN, well known in St.
Johnsbury as driver of the express team,
suddenly disappeared on Monday, the LIST,
and has not since been heard from. He
leaves wife and a three-year-old child.
DURING a recent thunderstorm the barn
of Francis Clark in Richmond was burned,
with all its contents, some fifteen or twenty
tons of hay and other valuable products
being destroyed. There was no insurance.
JOEL THOMAS of Pittsford over seventy
years of age, claims that he never rode on a
railroad train, though he has lived near a
railroad all his life. He has attended every
circus that has exhibited in that vicinity for
forty years past.
HENRY, the twelve-year-old son of John
W. Conway of North Pownal, was badly
burned about the face and eyes by powder
with which he was playing. 1t is feared the
sight of both eyes is destroyed. He was
taken to Albany for treatment.
AN unknown man was thrown from a
railroad bridge at Swanton by a train last
week and killed. He was about twenty
years old and had on his person a receipt
given to Thomas Redding for a trunk
marked Thomas Redding, Chicago.
THE White River Savings Bank, incorpo
rated by the last general assembly and
recently organized, opened for business
Saturday. The officers are: Samuel E
Pingree, president; David H. Moore, vice
president; Curtis H. Kibling, treasurer.
REV. WILLIAM ENGLISH surprised his
people at Essex July 81 by giving motto,
that he and his wife had received appoint
ments under the American Board of Com
Turkey, and that they expect to sail fol
that country the last of September.
A PROVIDENCE (R. ~ dispatch says: Eu
gene Harley, aged forty-five, Vernon
school-teacher, was thrown from the steame
Pilgrim into the sound by lurch oil
a recent night. He was not missed, blu
was picked up unhurt an hour later b,
the schooner K. NJ. Reed Baltimore 70
Providence"
A WOMAN who lives in the vicinity of tn
railroad depot at Winooski got up in he
sleep, about three o'clock the other morning
and in her night clothing walked down tn
track toward Burlington. She was arouse
from her sleep by the $3.50 train as it wa
going through the tunnel and she foun
herself near the eastern entrance.
MRS. MARY A. LIvERMoRE will com
to Vermont September 1st for a lectuT
trip of three weeks Terms S25, expense
from last place and entertainment. An
person wishing to engage her for one of he
popular lectures mot necessarily upon ten
perance) can do so by applying at once t
Mrs. b. p. Elmer, Lower Cabot, superb
tendent of lecture work for the Woman
Christian Temperance Union of Vermont,
THE Vermont State Grange, Patrons
Husbandry has filed with the interstai
commerce commission complaint again
the Boston & Lowell Railroad Company an
certain of its connections, charging tn;
higher freight rates are charged betwee
Boston and certain Vermont stations tina
between Boston and Montreal or Boston an
Detroit. 1t asks for hearing in connectC
with that to be given on the complaint
the Boston & Albany road at Rutland me-
month.
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